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The Clinch

01 FEB 2004

Murilo Rua vs Alexander Otsuka

No photograph on file Murilo Rua “Ninja”

4-3-0 entering this bout

Age 23 · 5′11″180.3 cm

Won

No photograph on file Alexander Otsuka “The Diet Butcher”

3-8-0 entering this bout

Age 32 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
14/24
R1
2/10

Submission Arm Triangle From Side Control Round 1 · 5:25

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Murilo Rua Enters 2-2-0 against GRAPPLING
Alexander Otsuka Enters 2-4-0 against GRAPPLING

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Murilo Rua    Alexander Otsuka

Bout totals

14
Sig. strikes
2
43
Total strikes
5
4
To the head
1
6
To the body
1
4
To the legs
0
2
At distance
0
5
In the clinch
2
7
On the ground
0
1
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
2
Sub. attempts
0
0:00
Control time
0:00

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Murilo Rua 14/24 43/56 4/13 6/6 4/5 2/5 5/8 7/11 1/1 0 --
Alexander Otsuka 2/10 5/13 1/7 1/1 0/2 0/3 2/7 0/0 0/1 0 --

Who said so

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Field Value
Is title fight No
Referee Minoru Toyonaga
Result detail Arm Triangle From Side Control
Result end round 1
Result end time seconds 5:25
Result method Submission
Scheduled rounds 3
Weight class Middleweight